Folk First: Black Roots Music

Hudson River Museum, Sunday October 16, 2016

Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston Perform

Sunday October 16, 1 & 3pm
Mr Lincoln in Peekskill – Members from The Hills’ Methodist-Episcopal Zion Church of Colored People attend President Lincoln’s Peekskill appearance.

Family Day at the Hudson River Museum – Free

Hudson River Museum (hrm.org)
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY

Metro North to Glenwood, a short walk or Metro North to Yonkers, a short ride

Thank you to Dr Edythe Ann Quinn for bringing The Hills community ancestors out of the shadows through her book Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York. 2005, SUNY Press.

Folk First at the Newark Museum

Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1pm
Vienna Carroll with Newman Taylor Baker, Charles Burnham, Keith Johnston and Michael O’Brien
special guest Chiquita Camille – dance

I’m so happy to be coming “back home” to Newark. I hope you’ll join us for a most fabulous show.

Newark Museum

49 Washington Street

Newark NJ

For more info, please call (973) 596-6550

RiverCulture Celebrates Folk First in Turners Falls

Weds., February 10, 2016 at 7 pm

Vienna Carroll with Keith Johnston

We’ll be celebrating Music and Diversity for Black History Month at
Great Falls Harvest Restaurant, 50 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA 01376

For more information, please call: (413) 863-0023

If you’re in the area, come on out!

Vienna Celebrates Black History Month in Mt. Vernon – Sat., Feb 6, 1 pm

With Keith Johnston

Folk First comes to the Mt Vernon Public Library, 28 S. First Ave, Mt Vernon, NY

This event is free. Great Fun for all ages, don’t miss it!

For more information please call: (914) 668-1840

Vienna and Friends at Harlem Arts Festival

Folk First: Black Roots Music is Vienna’s newest project. Debuted at the recent Harlem Arts Festival, it was a fabulously entertaining and riveting musical experience! It is no surprise that the intellectually gifted Vienna has a degree from Yale in African American Studies and Political Science. What is so remarkable is how perfectly she and her excellent band (Newman Taylor Baker – washboard; Keith Johnston – guitar; Henrique Prince – fiddle) convey the contemporary meaning of Work Songs and Spirituals and Prison Blues so that both young and old are rapturously engaged. You have to hear it for yourself.

Folk First: Black Roots Music with Vienna Carroll & Friends from Mark Johnson on Vimeo.